The clinic I used to work for had an alarm system that was occasionally accidentally set off by employees. After the third time the police came out in response to an alarm they started charging the company for wasting police time...

I am a 911 dispatcher. We get garbage calls like this all the time. "They put too much rice in my burrito." "Jack in the Box didn't put enough ice in my drink at the drive-thru." "I stubbed my toe and I need an amma-lance." "He won't give me my money back and he won't give me any fresh cigarettes." These are all actual calls that have come into my call center in the past 3 weeks, and they are only a sampling.

Sadly, these are the so-called normal citizens as opposed to the genuinely crazy ones, like the lady who wanted to report a kidnapping -- after calling out the appropriate agencies it became apparent that the baby squirrel she'd seen the past few weeks was now "missing" so clearly it'd been kidnapped.

When I saw the title of this, I assumed you were going to talk about the invasion of calls the Compton police office got recently when a rapper ( Sorry! I don't remember who, as my migraines don't let me get near music!) tweeted that if anyone wanted an internship, they should call a certain number. That number, of course, bring the Compton police station! It was chaos all day! They're calling it a phone flash mob. I think the rapper should face charges! What if there were a real emergency in Compton? (And being Compton, there probably was one!)

Welcome to my whining!

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